Szabó
Szabó is a common Hungarian surname, meaning "tailor". In 2019, it occurred in 203,126 names, making it the fourth most frequent Hungarian surname.
In Czech and Slovak, a female form is Szabóová.
Origin
It is usually originated from the present participle form of the verb "szab", meaning to "cut cloth to size", which then became a noun denoting the occupation of a tailor. It is also thought that the other meaning of the verb "kiszab", denoting the act of imposing fines, levying taxes etc. could have also led to the creation of the noun "szabó", meaning an occupation similar to a judge's or magistrate's. The existence of the two meanings could also justify why this surname could become so wide-spread.People with this name
- Attila Szabó, several people
- Bence Szabó (fencer), fencer
- Brett Szabo, American basketball player
- Claire Szabó, New Zealand politician
- Dávid Szabó, volleyball player
- Dezső Szabó (writer), Hungarian writer
- Dezső Szabó (athlete), decathlete
- Ecaterina Szabo, Hungarian-born Romanian gymnast
- Ervin Szabó, Hungarian Marxist
- Ferenc Szabó, several people
- Gabriela Szabo, Romanian athlete
- Gabriella Szabó, canoer
- Gábor Szabó, jazz guitarist
- Herma Szabo, Austrian figure skater
- István Szabó, several people
- John Szabo, City Librarian of Los Angeles
- Joseph Szabo, American photographer
- Joseph C. Szabo, Administrator of the United States Federal Railroad Administration
- József Szabó, swimmer
- József Szabó de Szentmiklós, geologist
- Yozhef Sabo, Ukrainian footballer, coach and functionairy of Hungarian descent
- Karolina Szabó, Hungarian long-distance runner
- Károly Szabó, employee of the Swedish Embassy in Budapest
- Károly Ferenc Szabó, Hungarian-born Romanian politician
- Krisztina Szabó, Hungarian-Canadian mezzo-soprano
- László Szabó, several people
- Lőrinc Szabó, poet and literary translator
- Magda Szabó, writer
- Magda Szabo, painter of miniatures
- Matyas Szabo, German fencer of Hungarian origin
- Miklós Szabó, several people
- Nick Szabo, computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer
- Nikolett Szabó, javelin thrower
- Paul Szabo (fencer), Romanian fencer at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Paul Szabo (politician), Canadian politician
- Paul Szabo (rugby union), Canadian rugby union player
- Rose Szabo, American author of What Big Teeth
- Sándor Szabó, several people
- Stephen Szabo, prominent scholar of transatlantic relations
- Szilvia Szabó, canoer
- Vilmoș Szabo, fencer and fencing coach
- Violette Szabo, secret agent
- Zoltán Szabó, several people
- Zsuzsanna Szabó-Olgyai, Hungarian pole vaulter
- Zsuzsanna Szabó (footballer), Hungarian footballer